Article
[Multilocus sequence-typing for characterization of Moscow strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b].
Molekuliarnaia genetika, mikrobiologiia i virusologiia - 1 Jan 2003
Platonov A E, Mironov K O, Iatsyshina S B, Koroleva I S, Platonova O V, Gushchin A E, Shipulin G A
Abstract excerpt
Haemophilius influenzae, type b (Hib) bacteria, were genotyped by multilocus sequence typing (MLST) using 5 loci (adk, fucK, mdh, pgi, recA). 42 Moscow Hib strains (including 38 isolates form cerebrospinal fluid of children, who had purulent meningitis in 1999-2001, and 4 strains isolated from healthy carriers of Hib), as well as 2 strains from Yekaterinburg were studied. In MLST a strain is characterized, by...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
